Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking

The Net may have briefly routed around Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan's DNS-based anti-Twitter censorship, but the minister's next move has been to mandate that Turkish ISPs block Twitter's assigned IP addresses. Reports Ars Technica: " This move essentially erases Twitter from the Internet within Turkey—at least to those people who don’t have access to SMS messaging, a foreign virtual private network or Web proxy service, or the Tor anonymizing network. 'We can confirm that Turkey is now blocking the IP addresses of Twitter after the previous DNS blocking technique proved ineffective,' said Doug Madory, of the Internet monitoring company Renesys, in an e-mail to Ars. A Turkish government webpage shows that there is an IP address block order in effect for 199.16.156.6, the primary IP address for twitter.com."

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The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile

[bazmail]

What an embarrassment of a human being that guy is.

As well as being corrupt as all hell hes trying to stop people talking about it in the most clown-fuck stupid way. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan I am embarrassed to be a part of the same species as you.

Help out their dissidents

[Nimey]

Follow these directions to set up Tor obfuscated bridges and give them a path around the censorship:

https://www.torproject.org/pro... (if you run Debian or Ubuntu)
https://www.torproject.org/pro... (more generic instructions)

More information in this email the Tor project sent out last year, including how to make an unpublished bridge that's harder to censor:
https://lists.torproject.org/p...

Re:Those who refuse to learn

[houstonbofh]

It also caused a huge jump in VPN signups. http://torrentfreak.com/turkey...